Chair: Alexander Von Meyer (Germany), Snezana Jovicic (Serbia), Tomris Ozben (Türkiye)
NEW INSIGHTS IN PREANALYTICAL QUALITY
Friday December 12, 2025
Sustainability and preanalytical phase
8:45 – 9:00
9:00 – 9:20
9:20 – 9:40
9:40 – 10:00
Welcome and introduction, Mario Plebani (Italy)
“Greener” and more sustainable preanalytical phase, Sheri Scott (UK)
How can labs minimize patient blood loss?, Ana-Maria Simundic (Croatia)
Good patient blood management improves cost, patient outcome and sustainability, Michael Cornes (UK)
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee Break
The role of digitalization and AI in improving preanalytical phase
Chair: Giuseppe Banfi (Italy), Tomas Zima (Czech Republic)
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 11:30
11:30– 12:00
Value-score for clinical laboratories, Mario Plebani (Italy)
Patient related outcomes and cost of preanal errors, Giuseppe Lippi (Italy)
Digitalization and artificial intelligence in preanalytical phase, Andrea Padoan (Italy)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:30
14:30 – 15:00
Tube transportation: Benefits, Drawbacks and Monitoring, Janne Cadamuro (Austria)
Patient and sample identification and exact time of venous blood collection, Pieter Vermeersch (Belgium)
The role of AI in preanalytical phase – use cases, Hikmet Can Çubukçu (Türkiye)
Alternatives to classical venous blood collection
Chair: Joao Tiago Guimares (Portugal), Klaus Peter Kohse (Germany)
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:30
Self-sampling benefits and challenges, Alvaro González (Spain)
The future of blood collection – robotic phlebotomy and other possibilities, Mads Nybo (Denmark)
Preanalytical challenges in decentralized laboratory testing, Gian Luca Salvagno (Italy)
Saturday December 13, 2025
Various preanalytical challenges – past, present and today
Chair: Dalius Vitkus (Lithuania), Pilar Fernandez Calle (Spain)
9:00 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Closing the Gap on Haemolysis, Sean Costelloe (Ireland)
Preanalytical phase in urine collection, Rosanna Falbo (Italy)
Sample stability – study design and reporting, Alex von Meyer (Austria)
Liquid biopsy: preanalytical changes, Enrico Iaccino (Italy)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Interactive session – let us talk about preanalytics
11:30 – 12:00
12:00 – 13:00
13:00 – 13:10
Roundtable: Pre-analytical challenges in anti-doping context
Discussants: Mario Plebani (Italy), Francesco Botrè (Italy), Giuseppe Banfi (Italy) Chair: Giuseppe Lippi (Italy)
Preanalytical cases – interactive session, Chair: Ana-Maria Simundic (Croatia)
Closing remarks, Mario Plebani (Italy), Alex von Meyer (Germany)